Anyone who thinks everything is just fine and dandy with our Montreal Canadiens is not thinking straight. The trend is clear — the Habs are going in the wrong direction. They’ve become a great October team, which is a good thing in baseball, not quite so good in hockey.

That cab driver I met in December nailed it. He said the Habs come into the season like a lion and go out like a Chihuahua. Ba-da-boom. The team is not built for playoff success and the post-season is all that matters in the National Hockey League.

So now that we’ve cleared that up, the billion-dollar question is: What does Canadiens GM Marc Bergevin do to try to get his team back in the fast lane?

The first thing that’s clear is he won’t get the team there by tinkering and, sadly, I’m pretty sure that’s what he will do, based on his shrug-shrug, what-can-I-do comments at the post-season news conference.

This is the time for a radical change. There’s a catchphrase in psychotherapy that’s sheer brilliance: If it’s not working one way, try another way. Simple but potentially life-changing (or team-changing).

Are the Canadiens winning with the current plan? No they’re not, unless you’re satisfied with a winning record in October and November. So come up with a new plan.

The Habs’ game plan for several years has been simple — and simply wrong. Pray that Carey Price performs his usual miracles and hope that’s enough to win. That’s not a good plan. In fact it’s no plan at all. So maybe that’s where Bergevin kick-starts the radical change. How about taking a long hard look at the idea of trading Price?

Of course many of you are going to say that’s just plain crazy. But remember what Bergevin said last summer when he shipped P.K. Subban to Nashville in return for Shea Weber. He said any player can be traded. And he’s right (about the notion, not about the Subban trade). I’m not suggesting Price be traded in the panicked way Patrick Roy was dealt to Colorado for a bag of pucks. Price should be traded if, and only if, Bergevin can get an amazing return and he likely will.

Bergevin should sign Price this summer. It would be a huge mistake to wait until summer 2018 when his contract’s up. If the GM doesn’t sign him, it’ll be a distraction all season. Remember the season Steven Stamkos’ contract was coming up for renewal? It was all anyone talked about all season.

So sign Price to the big deal and then wait until the right moment to deal him for something great, like John Tavares plus a top draft pick.

Why trade Price? The most important reason is that the team is not winning with him. I remember years ago my buddy Simon Boisvert, a former pro scout and current filmmaker, told me the Capitals should trade Alex Ovechkin. Why? Because great as he is, they’re not winning with him. Well same thing with the Canadiens and Price.

Price is once again a finalist for the Vézina Trophy this year and he did indeed have a stellar regular season, if you don’t dwell on the few weeks he was on strike in a successful effort to have Michel Therrien fired. In theory, he is one of the top three goalies in the league this season.

But who cares? Montreal won a grand total of two playoff games and was bounced in the first round by a mediocre New York Rangers team. Price was very good in that series, though not as good as Henrik Lundqvist (and don’t get me started on how the Habs’ “snipers” made The King look good!). But the Habs still lost.

The same thing happened during the bleu, blanc et rouge’s last playoff run in 2015. Les Boys made it into the second round that year, but they simply couldn’t buy a goal and were sent to the golf course by the Tampa Bay Lightning. And that was the year Price had a great season, winning every NHL trophy imaginable. But it still wasn’t enough to take them anywhere in the playoffs.

Price’s dirty little secret is that he’s never had a killer playoff run. He’s often been good, but he’s never stolen a series the way others have.

The reality is that today’s NHL isn’t about building teams around your goalie. You need a very good netminder, but you’re going to win the Cup with a great top-six up front and at least three stud defenceman.

Last but not least, there’s the age issue. Price turns 30 in August and by all accounts, he’ll want an eight or nine-year deal, worth at least $9 million a season. Price is in his prime and the problem is that he doesn’t have the team in front of him to take him to the finals. Will he still be in his prime at 35? Maybe. But maybe not. And the Habs will be stuck with that huge contract.

So sign him this summer and then see if you can make the right deal during the next 12 months. It’s high risk, but I’d suggest it’s even riskier to stick with the status quo, which is going nowhere.

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